AshEL Eldridge, Spoken Word - Eco Art from Oakland California
Ryan Andersen
In addition to my work with One Night Music, I work for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. This awesome organization hosts two Convergences a year during which they bring together hundreds of students from across the state representing dozens of campuses to build community and plan action to transform our education institutions into models of sustainability. AshEl gave a brief spoken word performance after the keynote address and I was blown away by what he had to offer. I quickly found him shortly after and asked if I could record him doing a more intimate performance of a song. He agreed, and this beautiful video is the product.
Here is some information on AshEl, quoted from the Alliance for Climate Education website:
AshEl Eldridge, a native of Chicago, is currently an Oakland, California based artist, educator, organizer and spiritualist. He was Outreach Associate and a Cultural Director of Green For All's Public launch called Dream Reborn and Spotlight Events Coordinator for Green Jobs Now: A National Campaign to Build the New Green Economy.
He performs spoken word, rap and sings nationally with conscious Hip Hop, Dub, Reggae and Electronica bands including Wisdom and Bassnectar. He has shared stages with Steel Pulse, KRS-One, STS9, Michael Franti, Midnite, Ozomatli and more. In addition to being a music, poetry, and meditation facilitator with Art in Action, where he works to empower low-income youth from urban communities, AshEL also combines the world of art, music and community healing with ecological sustainability within the CommuniTree Movement.
His work aims to cultivate the links between both local and global movements for social justice, spiritual awakening and ecological healing through "edutainment" and other compelling ways to captivate youth and hard to reach populations.
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